Melissa Gallant is a Senior Advisor on Climate at the Nature Conservancy based in Washington, DC. She specializes in voluntary standards and best practices for corporate action on climate and nature. In her role, she has served on the Technical Advisory Group for the Science Based Targets initiative (2023-2025), Technical Working Group for the GHG Protocol’s Land Sector and Removals Standard and led the Nature Conservancy’s approaches on frameworks for addressing land-based scope 3 emissions and the role of carbon credits in net zero. Before TNC, she worked in the U.S. State Department’s climate change office and Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace. She holds an M.S. in Sustainability Management and B.A. in Environmental Studies.